Mark Diacono

I’m lucky enough to spend most of my time eating, growing, writing and talking about food.

I created Otter Farm in order to encourage people to consider growing unusual and forgotten food along with the best of the familiar. Kiwis, sweet cicely, chocolate vines, Japanese wineberries and Vietnamese coriander, pecans, quince, almonds, Szechuan pepper and mulberries are among the many incredible flavours we can grow. The Otter Farm nursery offers the best unusual and familiar plants and seeds, in varieties that I think are most delicious.

I have written seven award winning books, including A Year at Otter Farm which won Andre Simon Food Book of the Year 2014, and A Taste of the Unexpected which won the Guild of Food Writers’ Food Book of the Year 2011, and a number of books for River Cottage.

The photographs here and in my books and articles are taken by me, unless I’m in them, in which case you can blame Jason Ingram.

I also host and do demos at food and gardening shows and events, design edible gardens, and teach courses around the country.